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...been ill. In a spot check on about 1,000 workers who had acquired certificates, the national health-insurance agency found that only 219 were really sick, 386 were completely well and 353 were uncheckable because they were away from home-possibly tending to their sex lives. The Turin Physicians' Association recently sent a letter to its members warning them against issuing fake certificates, "especially when the 'patient' is visiting in another city or spending time in jail...
...Italy's coastal cities have no sewage-treatment facilities. Even Milan, Italy's second largest city, has no such plant. Most wastes-industrial as well as human-are simply dumped into local rivers, which then strew filth into the Adriatic Sea. Flowing southeast from industrial Turin, the River Po alone dirties the Adriatic with effluents equivalent to those of more than 4,000,000 people...
Taste Like Burrs. In Italy, the 18th century resisted generalization. Florentine painting had collapsed, never to revive, and activity was split among several centers: Rome, Venice, Turin, Bologna and Naples. There was no broad direction of style. The artists worked more and more outside Italy, pursuing foreign commissions and coming back with the seeds of foreign taste sticking to them like burrs. As a result, the range of the period was astonishing; it ran from Magnasco's turbid compositions of raggedy monks to the grandeur and sun-washed transparency of Tiepolo's Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, from Pier...
...wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church and the Communist Party may have more in common than either thinks-an "anonymous, administrative grayness" that can crush the spirit and leave a man as maimed...
After 1815, when the Memoirs end, Madame de La Tour du Pin trailed her diplomat-husband from The Hague to Turin. Even in old age, revolutionary ups and downs were the norms of their lives. When Aymar became involved in a plot to place the Due de Bordeaux on the throne in 1831, both parents spent time in prison out of sympathy, then joined him in exile...